The evolution of primary sexual characters in animals

著者

    • Leonard, Janet L. (Janet Louise)
    • Córdoba-Aguilar, Alex

書誌事項

The evolution of primary sexual characters in animals

edited by Janet L. Leonard and Alex Córdoba-Aguilar

Oxford University Press, c2010

  • cloth : alk. paper

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Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Primary sexual traits, those structures and processes directly involved in reproduction, are some of the most diverse, specialized, and bizarre in the animal kingdom. Moreover, reproductive traits are often species-specific, suggesting that they evolved very rapidly. This diversity, long the province of taxonomists, has recently attracted broader interest from evolutionary biologists, especially those interested in sexual selection and the evolution of reproductive strategies. Primary sexual characters were long assumed to be the product of natural selection, exclusively. A recent alternative suggests that sexual selection explains much of the diversity of "primarysexual characters. A third approach to the evolution of reproductive interactions after copulation or insemination has been to consider the process one of sexual conflict. That is, the reproductive processes of a species may reflect, as does the mating system, evolution acting on males and on females, but in different directions. In this volume, authors explore a wide variety of primary sexual characters and selective pressures that have shaped them, from natural selection for offspring survival to species-isolating mechanisms, sperm competition, cryptic female choice and sexual arms races. Exploring diverse reproductive adaptations from a theoretical and practical perspective, The Evolution of Primary Sexual Characters will provide an unparalleled overview of sexual diversity in many taxa and an introduction to the issues in sexual selection that are changing our view of sexual processes.

目次

  • JANET L. LEONARD
  • PART I: GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
  • MICHAEL T. GHISELIN
  • JANET L. LEONARD
  • WILLIAM G. EBERHARD
  • PATRICIA ADAIR GOWATY AND STEPHEN P. HUBBELL
  • PART II: PRIMARY SEXUAL CHARACTERS IN SELECTED TAXA
  • KATIE E. LOTTERHOS AND DON R. LEVITAN
  • ALAN N. HODGSON
  • ANGEL VALDES, TERRENCE M. GOSLINER, AND MICHAEL T. GHISELIN
  • PHILIPPE JARNE, PATRICE DAVID, JEAN-PIERRE POINTIER, AND JORIS M. KOENE
  • BRUNO BAUR
  • ALFREDO V. PERETTI
  • WILLIAM G. EBERHARD AND BERNHARD A. HUBER
  • ROGELIO MACIAS-ORDONEZ, GLAUCO MACHADO, ABEL PEREZ-GONZALEZ, AND JEFFREY W. SHULTZ
  • NINA WEDELL AND DAVID J. HOSKEN
  • ADOLFO CORDERO RIVERA AND ALEX CORDOBA-AGUILAR
  • PAUL EADY
  • MICHAEL TABORSKY AND FRANCIS C. NEAT
  • LYNNE D. HOUCK AND PAUL A. VERRELL
  • TOBIAS ULLER, DEVI STUART-FOX, AND MATS OLSSON
  • ROBERT MONTGOMERIE
  • EDWARD H. MILLER
  • ALEX CORDOBA-AGUILAR
  • INDEX

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